esxi installation on dell optiplex 790
hi experts, 1. Tried installing Vmware Native Esxi 5.1 OS on Dell Optiplex 790, Installation Wizard reported no supported network cards found. 2. Tried Installing Dell Customized Esxi 5.1 on the same...
View ArticleGuest OS to raw san storage (2TB limit?)
I'm trying to get one of my guest os machines to see a 4TB fibre SAN storage (as a local drive, so guest os can share it).(Esxi 4.1). I'm trying to do this with "Add Hard Disk" - but that may not be...
View Articlevmware player 4 host trisquel 6 guest vmxnet compile errors
vmware player 4 host trisquel 6 guest vmxnet compile errors aptitude install build-essential linux-headers vmware-config-tools.pl generates errors from vmxnet.c vmxnet_probe_device vmxnet_map_pkt...
View ArticleChoose best OS architecture, which is better x86 or x64?
Hi, I want to deliver virtual desktop to office workers and I have limitation on resources, memory and CPU.I need to advise about OS architecture, which has better performance on x64 processor and ESXi...
View ArticleRestored vm boot problem
Hi, I upgraded our Esxi 4.1 hosts to 5.1. First I backed up virtual machines using ghettovcb script, then installed esxi 5.1 and then restored virtual machines. Problem is that I cannot boot few of...
View ArticleNew ESXi install + Not able to access ESX server to start with vsphere client
Hello All, I am trying to setup my home ESXi lab. I m using Intel Core i7 processor with 32 GB RAM. One inbuilt NIC and one external NIC installed in PCI slot. I have installed ESXi 5.1.0 build 79733....
View ArticleCorrupted Fedora 14 install - how do I access the Linux Kernal Parameters?
Good afternoon! One of our clients recently decided to power of their ESXi 5.1 server via the power button, and since then one of the VM's which is running Fedora 14 developer install hangs when...
View ArticleWindows 2003 64 bit
After creating a new vmdk file and attaching it to the Virtual Server, I am unable to format the drive. It just times out. Has anyone had this experience and what was done to resolve the issue. Thanks...
View ArticleCan a guest find out its own virtual hardware version?
Is it possible for a guest to figure out its own virtual hardware version from within the guest OS?
View ArticleESXi & sbs 2003 random network issues
i have a PE 2950 with ESXi 5.1 and sbs 2003 installed. It has random network disconnection issues. At least once per day, for maybe 2 to 10 minutes. Seems to vary. A month ago I noticed an error logged...
View ArticleDisable multiple devices via the .vmx file
I'm working on a STIG for a vSphere environment, and I have a question about disabling devices. If I want to disable multiple floppy devices or multiple IDE devices, I am making a line for each...
View Articleinfrequent boot to Recovery Console, Windows Server 2008 R2
Hi! When booting VMs running Windows Server 2008 R2, sometime they end up in the Recovery Console. This seems to happen most often after installing Windows updates (but then again, this is probably...
View ArticleFormatting Issue
Hi, I have a IBM server x3100M4 Core i3-2100 3.1Ghz 2Gb with a SATA 1TB Simple-swap 3Gb/s Hard Drive. I used to have vmware vsphere esxi and it worked out just fine with windows server and ubuntu...
View ArticleVirtual machine snapshot fails, but only on one host
Hi, Vmware ESXi 5.0.0 768111 Snapshotting directly from Vcenter (with Quiesce option enabled) works fine.But Backup Exec 2012 is using the snapshot technique also and then the snap shot fails: Create...
View ArticleVirtual Machine Performance issue
Hi All, I have performance data missing for few virtual machine in my site. we don't have NTP Server in our environment so i disable the time sync of those virtual machine by last week after that the...
View ArticleImage Level backup for independent disks without installing third party...
Image Level backup for independent disks without installing third party agents/software?...Can it be done?
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Missing VM in ESX 5
Hi, I have very less knowledge in VMWare. I have created a lab environment with ESX 5.0 o VMWare workstation 8.0 and also created a virtual machine on ESX. But the strange thing is the VM will...
View ArticleFSMO-roles on physical or virtual DC
Hi. Wir haben HA-Cluster auf ESXi 5.1. Darauf eine Windows 2008 R2 Domain mit insgesamt 3 DC, 2 virtuell und 1 auf physischer Hardware. Alle machen DNS und GC. Ich bin mir jetzt nicht ganz sicher, wie...
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Windows Server 2003 vmdk / Bluescreen / Missing VMX
Hi, We're coming out of the other side of a RAID failure which took a number of machines with it. I'm trying to restore one particular machine which was replicated offsite using SRM. Unfortunately I...
View ArticleBoot Failure
I'm trying to boot a VM with RedHat Linux 6.0 version and keep getting this error . "No DEFAULT or UI configuration directive found". I even replaced the .iso but same error. only happening with...
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